Lowering costs nets Salesforce a profitable quarter, but can it keep it up?
Salesforce had a better quarter than expected, but it’s reporting and forecasting those results based on prior work, to a real degree.
Floworks is building an AI assistant to change how workers interact with software
About the time that Floworks co-founders Sudipta Biswas and Sarthak Shrivastava were starting at Y Combinator in the Winter 23 cohort, they had a chat with veteran investor Vinod Khosla,…
Context.ai wants to merge product analytics sensibilities with LLMs
Since the release of ChatGPT at the end of last year, we’ve seen companies developing generative AI tooling to help customers interact with their products and services in a more…
Flojoy is bringing no-code Python testing to industrial instrumentation
Whether you’re building a chip or an airplane, you need to measure the effectiveness of the product at each step of the manufacturing process, much like you do with developing…
Google introduces GKE Enterprise to help companies manage complex Kubernetes environments
Google launched Kubernetes back in 2014 as an open source project to help manage containers. Over time, as it has become a cloud-native mainstay, the company has continued to support…
Today at Google Cloud Next, the company announced several new generative AI enhancements to its security product line in an effort to make it easier to find information from a…
Splinter group officially launches OpenTF fork of HashiCorp Terraform
Earlier this month HashiCorp announced it was changing the open source license it uses for Terraform and its other developer tools. The change triggered an uproar in the open source…
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Nvidia is flying high thanks to AI
When Nvidia reported earnings this week with three-digit growth, it put extra pressure on the company to continue performing at a high level.
Former head of growth at Slack is building a growth-tracking platform for everyone
When Panobi co-founder Merci Grace began running growth at Slack in 2015, she helped grow the user base from 50,000 to more than 3 million in just a couple of…
Google plans to bring AI-fueled security enhancements to Google Workspace
As companies move to the cloud, keeping data secure is always front of mind. While Google is quick to point out that it has never had an exploit in Google…
Twilio Segment teams with Amazon SageMaker on new customer predictions product
The customer data platform provides a central place to collect first-party information about customers, but simply having a pile of data is not the point. Companies want to put it…
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Chronic technical debt could be holding your company back
Companies mired in tech debt, with older, brittle systems, could face big issues when game changing technologies come along.
Intel’s modernization strategy could face setback with end of $5.4B Tower deal
In 2021, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger announced a comprehensive modernization strategy he dubbed IDM (integrated device manufacturing) 2.0. As part of that vision, the company announced a $20 billion investment…
Arthur releases open source tool to help companies find the best LLM for a job
Arthur, a machine learning monitoring startup, has benefited from the interest in generative AI this year, and it has been developing tools to help companies work with LLMs more effectively.…
Apica acquires Logiq.ai to bring together observability and synthetic data
Apica, a 17-year-old Swedish company, helps companies test applications using synthetic data. Today, Apica announced it has acquired Logiq.ai to help expand beyond purely testing into post-production monitoring, an approach…
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The tech jobs market is as strong as it ever was
It may feel like the tech jobs market is in the doldrums, but the data suggests that it could be much more robust than you think.
Browse AI helps companies build bots to scrape website data and put it to work
Traditionally, companies looking to extract data from websites have had to create custom code to get at the data, an expensive and time-consuming process that is often out of reach…
AI has been has hot as it comes since the start of the year, but the question remains whether it’s a product category or a platform piece.
When a major system incident occurs, there is a ton of online and offline communication going on — or at least there should be. The online part creates a digital…
Google opens eSignature beta for Google Docs and Google Drive
Electronic signature has become table stakes for companies involved in document storage and management. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Google announced an open beta of its new-ish…
Slack gets interface makeover with a more unified approach including dedicated DMs
Like most software, Slack developed over time adding a slew of new features like Huddles, Canvas and workflows. But like any piece of software that is over a decade old…
Simon Data is putting customer data to work with $54M Series D
The customer data platform (CDP) has become a standard way to collect first-party customer data and put it to work. Simon Data, which was founded in 2015, has always had…
How Thomson Reuters is leveraging AI to enhance productivity, rather than replace jobs
Thomson Reuters has been around since the 19th century, but it’s not stuck there, embracing AI as a way to help customers and employees.
AWS revenue growth dropped to 12% in Q2, but company remains optimistic about cloud biz
Amazon has seen AWS growth rates dropping substantially over the last three quarters, from 20% to 16% to 12% this quarter. That’s not the kind of trend any company wants…
Even as cloud growth continues to slow, market remains robust in Q2 at $65B
Cloud growth has been slowing for a number of reasons this year. Some of it has to do with macroeconomic headwinds causing customers to look to cut their cloud bills,…
Salesforce Einstein Studio lets you bring your own model, starting with Amazon SageMaker
Salesforce introduced its AI layer, dubbed Einstein, in 2016. More recently, at the Salesforce World Tour event in NYC in May, all the company talked about was generative AI and…
Long before people were talking about ChatGPT and generative AI, companies like Datasaur were dealing with the nuts and bolts of building machine learning models, helping label things to train…
Python enjoys great popularity with developers, which is why the founders of Reflex chose it as the basis for their low-code web app development platform. The startup, formerly known as…
Lightup wants to shine a light on data quality with $9M Series A
We all know how important data quality is. That’s where the timeless phrase “Garbage in, garbage out” came from. As the pace of data creation accelerates, and it gets used…
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Tech spending has remained surprisingly stable in 2023
As we approach the middle of the third quarter, we take a look at how last year’s spending predictions have panned out to this point.